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Monday, August 7, 2017

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I am disappointed but unsurprised by the news that an anti-diversity, sexist, manifesto is making…

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medium.com - I am disappointed but unsurprised by the news that an anti-diversity, sexist, manifesto is making the rounds at Google. This is not entirely new behavior. Google has seen hints of this in the past, w…

'No major incidents' as driverless buses launch in Estonia - BBC News

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www.bbc.com - Authorities have reported "no major incidents" after the first three days of a driverless bus service in the Estonian capital Tallinn. A pair of vehicles are operating on a route through the city as …

LG V30 prototype leak shows us what's coming - SlashGear

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www.slashgear.com - If the Galaxy S8 and, soon, the Galaxy Note 8 love to flaunt their curves, the LG G6 and the upcoming LG V30 might be more remembered for their mostly straight lines. That seems to be impression you …

A smartwatch won’t fix what’s broken with Fitbit

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techcrunch.com - Fitbit’s Q2 earnings could have been worse. Unlike Q4 of last year, the company didn’t use the opportunity to announce that it would be laying off six percent of its staff. Still, things are bad. As …

Escher Reality is building the backend for cross-platform mobile AR

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techcrunch.com - The potential of mobile augmented reality is clear. Last summer Pokemon Go gave a glimpse of just how big this craze could be, as thousands of excited humans converged on parks, bus stops and other l…

10 Members of Congress rake FCC over the coals in official net neutrality comment

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techcrunch.com - How and to what extent the FCC should regulate internet access has been a hot question for years, and the present administration holds opposite views than the previous one, resulting in a proposal to…

4 Lead Gen Secrets Successful Photographers Don't Want Their Competitors to Know | The AdLab Blog

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adlabblog.com - So many amazing photographers struggle to get leads due to the high volume of photographers in their area competing for clients. They waste hundreds of dollars by running Facebook ads that do not pro…

How to Get More Out of Google+ With Circles

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Do you want to keep your connections organized? Sorting people and pages into circles allows you to read the news you want from your stream and connect with specific audiences. In this article I’ll s…

4 Tools to Improve Your Social Media Marketing

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Does social media marketing contribute to your bottom line? Are you looking for tools to boost your ROI? As social media changes from an engagement-driven environment to a conversion-driven one, new …

7 Internet Scams Even the Smartest People Fall For

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mentalfloss.com - Not so long ago, you were considered a savvy internet user if you ignored unsolicited emails from princes in faraway lands. Now the distinction between what’s a scam and what’s a legitimate online bu…

Mobile Optimization: Progressive Web Apps vs. Native Apps

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www.searchenginejournal.com - Apps make it possible for brands and business to deliver optimized content to customers via smartphones and tablets. Of course, the user has to install your app on their smartphone first. But once th…

Inside the world of Silicon Valley's 'coasters' — the millionaire engineers who get paid gobs of money and barely work

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www.businessinsider.com - A Facebook partner lounges on Facebook's Menlo Park campus. AP On a sunny summer morning, a Facebook engineer woke up to go to work but felt ill. She ran to her bathroom and threw-up. "I thought I wa…

A Super-Easy GIF-Maker and Other Essential New Apps

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www.wired.com - Google’s “do no evil” motto is being challenged this week in a complaint charging the company with secretly collecting and storing data on school children through its Chromebook and Apps for Educatio…

Integrating Mobile Loyalty Features Can Create a Personalized Customer Experience

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www.loyalty360.org - Making a true connection between rewarding loyalty customers and increasing mobile payments adoption was the theme of a new report, “Rewarding Loyal Customers to Increase Mobile Payments Adoption,” w…

Digital Transformation Using Data-Driven Insights for Exceptional Customer Engagement

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www.loyalty360.org - Digital transformation (DX ) is an expansive and, at times, confusing discipline, but mastering it is an unavoidable reality for any organization—even those that were “born digital”—wanting to remain…

Gen Z Holds Distinct Customer Engagement Expectations

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www.loyalty360.org - When it comes to customer service and customer engagement through emerging channels, Gen Z has distinct expectations of brands, according to an American Express study that was conducted by Forrester …

Google Shopping shakes up mobile product card unit ads with swipeable carousel, filters

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searchengineland.com - Google has started testing a different variation of mobile product card units, which is the Google Shopping format of a knowledge panel. The store listings, spotted by Josh Leibner, director of paid …

betternet :Provides Parents With Information About Their Kids' Online Behavior - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Colton Shields”, Co-Founder of the Provo – USA based start-up “bettrnet” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and wha…

Flipit : Global Couponing Environment in Australia - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Mr. ‘Jochem Vroom'; Founder of the Netherlands start-up “Flipit”. Below, is the full interview that we have conducted : 1. What is…

Talk.io A New Way To Meet People - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Today, we had a quick overview with Mr. ‘Tomasz Dominiak'; Project Manager / CEO of Talk.io in Warsaw. Talk.io (http://www.talk.io) is a new product designed for anyone who wants to break free from …

CMS2CMS : A CMS Migration tool . - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - CMS2CMS is the web based service that helps to move content from the existing CMS to a new one easily and fast. Today, we had a quick overview with Mr. ‘Ruslan Savchyshyn'; Director and Founder in Uk…

Fanaka : Automates Sales, Projects and Accounting - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Michael Mbugua”, Founder and CEO at the Nairobi, Kenya based start-up “Fanaka-Hybrid” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you…

Rawporter.com: A Mobile Application That Helps People Earn Money for Shooting and Sharing Photos and Videos - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Rawporter helps people earn money for shooting and sharing photos and videos. All items captured with the app or uploaded online are indexed so they become discoverable by search engines and can not …

Scoopinion.com: A Web-Based Application that Turns Your Browser into a Learning Magazine - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Scoopinion builds your personal magazine by matching what people like you have read well and you haven’t. It’s an effortless way to make the news good for yourself and the community. As per Mr. Koshi…

Here@ : Find New Friend, Love Interest, or Find a Job - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Sam McCaa”, CEO of the US based start-up “Hereat” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your start-up is all…

AppAppeal.com: Finding Web Apps Made Easy! - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - AppAppeal reviews and compares web applications to help people find the best web app for their needs. Our quality reviews are comprehensive, objective, and created by professional writers. We do not …

Sleeves Up Productions : Digital Content For Brands - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Erika Kramer”, CEO and Founder at New York – USA based start-up “SleevesUpProductions” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is it exactly that y…

Conversion In A Box : Web Based Niche Marketing Tool - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Mr. ‘Mark La Fay'; Founder of the – USA start-up “Conversion In A Box”. Below, is the full interview that we have conducted : 1. W…

Brian Zuercher Of VenueSeen On Social Media Photography And Managing Customer Relationships - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Brian Zuercher had a precocious interest in business for a boy from the Buckeye State. He likes his sports, too, but ever since the days of running the school store, the entrepreneurial path has beck…

LivingJunction.com: A Drag-and-Drop Social Publishing Platform to Create Social Magazines Around your Hobbies and Interests - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Living Junction is a social publishing platform that let’s you drag-and-drop rich media content to the pages of your own gorgeous magazine to bring your favorite topics alive. “Living Junction” is a …

Count.ly: An Innovative, Open Source, Real-Time Mobile Analytics Platform - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Countly is an innovative, open source, real-time mobile analytics platform intended for game studios, marketers, agencies, operators, and pretty much everyone with an aim to increase loyalty, user re…

MassivBrand : New Innovative Home Technology - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Michelle Bair”, Owner – of the Arizona – US based start-up “MassivBrand” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what …

8 Technologies and Platforms Every Forward-Thinking Marketer Needs to Know

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www.adweek.com - From IBM’s souped-up supercomputer Watson to Google’s tricked-out, self-driving cars, marketers are navigating a new wave of tech services and platforms beyond the walls of traditional advertising. A…

Here's What You Need to Know About Voice AI, the Next Frontier of Brand Marketing

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www.adweek.com - Soon enough, your breakfast bar could be your search bar. Your lamp could be how you shop for lightbulbs. Your Chevy or Ford might be your vehicle for finding a YouTube video, like the classic SNL sk…

College Campus Rape Survivor: Pepper Spray Won't Cut It, Women Need Guns - Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - She said she had pepper spray with her when she was attacked on Florida State University’s campus in 2014, but the spray did not stop the attacker. According to 4Jax, Lopez-Rivas said, “He had a knif…

Business Transformation Enabled by IDC DecisionScapes

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robllewellyn.com - The future of business will be technology fuelled and driven. Future technologies (Mobility, Cloud Computing, Social Media, Crowd-sourcing, Internet of things, Industry 4.0, Big Data, 3D printing) or…

Silicon Valley "Outraged" After Google Employee Pens Viral Doc Slamming "Anti-Conservative" Culture - Silver For The People

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www.brotherjohnf.com - Internal article circulated at work today describing how gender rep gap in SW is due to biological differences btwn men/women. — Sarah Adams (@sadams007) August 4, 2017 Internal article circulated at…

23 Amazing Online Marketing Tactics for Small Businesses With Low Budgets

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neilpatel.com - If you’re reading this, I assume you’ve heard of the Internet. At the time of writing this, InternetLiveStats shows that over 3.6 billion people are using the Internet. And the user base is steadily …

Here's how to deal with harassment on Twitter

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mashable.com - If Twitter has one major headache that never seems to go away, it's trolls. But things might now be starting to look up. The company, once content to do almost nothing to address harassment on its pl…

The Latest Instapage Product Updates: Heatmaps, Audit Log, & Pricing

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instapage.com - Over the last year, we have focused almost exclusively on upgrading our platform by offering industry-first solutions like collaboration, advanced subaccount permissions, and privacy. We have also in…

Getting Into The Swing Of Facebook Marketing

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duracmarketing.com - It’s best to put coupons up on Sunday. You have to use a quote if you want to engage people; that’s what common wisdom says. Of course, these are just myths. How can you get solid information? This a…

How Diablo II Changed My Life: An Introduction to Actionable Gamification - Yu-kai Chou: Gamification & Behavioral Design

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yukaichou.com - In 2003, like many students of my generation, I was a heavy gamer. In each game I played, I was very competitive and always strived to obtain the highest score. I was almost incapable of playing a ga…

How To Actually Avoid 99% of Email Sending Mistakes And Why | 5 Step Marketing

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5stepmarketing.com - This article is divided into three different sections. Each of the checklist items you find in those sections are related to drafting emails, testing emails, and sending emails. Using these checklist…

Kotlin, a new language for Android

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embedded-computing.com - Kotlin, a new language for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that gets its name from Kotlin Island, near St. Petersburg, makes Android development more streamlined in many ways. In 2011, an unveiled ver…

Week in review: MalwareTech arrested, hacking Amazon Echo - Help Net Security

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www.helpnetsecurity.com - Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and podcasts: US senators introduce bill to improve IoT security, protect researchers probing it The Internet of Things (IoT)…

Find Out How Dynamics GP Cloud ERP Outperforms Acumatica

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abouttmc.com - The ideal vision of a company is typically that of growth and success. No one starts a company hoping it stays small and breaks even. From the startup phase thru to SMB recognition, successful busin…

openSAP: SAP’s Own Know-How

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news.sap.com - It’s been four and a half years since the openSAP platform was launched, and the free massive open online courses (MOOCs) have already become a well-established further development format for SAP top…


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